Lit Hub Daily: October 31, 2018

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TODAY: In 1876, American writer Natalie Clifford Barney is born. She ran a salon at Parisian home for more than 60 years, promoting women’s writing through her “Women’s Academy” (L’Académie des Femmes) which she began in response to the all-male French Academy.

“The horror of the Great War consumed the lives of soldiers and civilians alike; it sought them out in their sleep, their imagination, and, bizarrely, in their entertainments.” How horror changed after WWI. | Lit Hub